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[syn: crumbly, friable]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Crumbly \Crum"bly\ (-bl[y^]), a.
Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The crumbly soil."
--Hawthorne.
Syn: crimp.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
crumbly
adj 1: easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder;
"friable sandstone"; "friable carcinomatous tissue";
"friable curds formed in the stomach";"crumbly cookies"
[syn: crumbly, friable]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "crumbly":
breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, cheap-jack, cobwebby,
crackable, crimp, crisp, crispy, crump, crushable, dainty,
delicate, delicately weak, effeminate, fissile, flimsy,
fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, gimcrack,
gimcracky, gossamery, jerry, jerry-built, lacerable, light,
lightweight, namby-pamby, papery, pasteboardy, pulverizable,
pulverulent, puny, rubbery, scissile, shatterable, shattery,
shivery, sissified, sleazy, slight, splintery, tacky, triturable,
unsubstantial, vulnerable, wispy, womanish